Re: Historical kernel repository size

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sep 15, 2006, 01:19 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609142115560.2627@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <1158272651.5724.251.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 23:54 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 17:42 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > > git repack neither accepts --depth nor --window
> > > 
> > > Is the GIT version on kernel.org _that_ old?
> > > 
> > > What a shame...
> > 
> > [tglx@hera history.git]$ git --version
> > git version 1.4.2.1

OK that's recent enough indeed.

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> I know I'm stupid
> 
> "git-repack --window=50 --depth=50 -a -f" works
> "git-repack -a -f --window=50 --depth=50" does not
> 
> Intuitive user interfaces are my favorite pitfalls.

Erm... Both incantations work fine fine here.

> -rw-rw-r-- 1 tglx ftpadmin  13600376 Sep 14 22:16 pack-4d27038611fe7755938efd4a2745d5d5d35de1c1.idx
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 tglx ftpadmin 158679705 Sep 14 22:16 pack-4d27038611fe7755938efd4a2745d5d5d35de1c1.pack

And I get the same result as well.

Nicolas